Our front-page story on Boston Medical Center’s Family Advocacy
Program encouraged us to look back at another time in the history of BU’s
School of Medicine. Here “children greet Med student on a house
call,” according to the 1962 Hub yearbook. House calls were once
part of the training that enabled future doctors to link the health of
children with their environment. At the time, the School of Medicine offered
courses in social and environmental medicine, comprising its Home Medical
Service, which was run by MED’s department of preventive medicine
and the Home Medical Service of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. Photo
from the 1962 Hub